When I Wrote The First [bond Novel]

It Reads Better Than It Lives

Le Chiffre Was Serving A Wonderful Purpose, A Really Vital Purpose, Perhaps The Best And Highest Purpose Of All. By His Evil Existence, Which Foolishly I Have Helped To Destroy, He Was Creating A Norm Of Badness By Which, And By Which Alone, An Opposite Norm Of Goodness Could Exist. We Were Privileged, In Our Short Knowledge Of Him, To See And Estimate His Wickedness And We Emerge From The Acquaintanceship Better And More Virtuous Men.

I Take A Ridiculous Pleasure In What I Eat And Drink. It Comes Partly From Being A Bachelor, But Mostly From A Habit Of Taking A Lot Of Trouble Over Details. It's Very Persnickety And Old-maidish Really, But Then When I'm Working I Generally Have To Eat My Meals Alone And It Makes Them More Interesting When One Takes Trouble.

You Can Get Far In North America With Laconic Grunts. "huh," "hun," And "hi!" In Their Various Modulations, Together With "sure," "guess So," "that So?" And "nuts!" Will Meet Almost Any Contingency.

The Scent And Smoke And Sweat Of A Casino Are Nauseating At Three In The Morning.